English 102 1 November 2012
Poetry
Wallace Stevens is one of America's most respected poets. He was a master stylist, employing an extraordinary vocabulary and a rigorous precision in crafting his poems. But he was also a philosopher of aesthetics, vigorously exploring the notion of poetry as the supreme fusion of the creative imagination and objective reality. Because of the extreme technical and thematic complexity of his work, Stevens was sometimes considered a willfully difficult poet. Stevens has an original style to his mascara which has tones, symbolism, and conflicts in a different kind of way outers doesn’t use.
"Sunday Morning" has a very particular set of tone that is caught several times during this poetry. It has the sense of losing religion. For example, when the narrator says, “Why should she give her bounty to the dead?/What is divinity if it can come/Only in silent shadow and in dreams?/ Shall she not find in comforts of the sun,” which is saying why give yourself to the all mighty(Line16-19). “A Postcard from a Volcano” execute a voice of death in the tone because of the time it took place during the WWI era. Next, the poem “Farewell to Florida” tone is to get away. “…the past is dead/ I am free./ …she will not follow in any word” in this the narrator is saying that he wants to get far away from Florida as possible(L.5,7,28). Therefore, Stevens wordage of the poetry is very different than outer styles which makes him unique. Symbolism is another unique way that Stevens uses in his poetry that sets him apart from outers. “Sunday Morning” when the narrator says, “I am content when wakened birds, before they fly, test the reality” means that she has to test and see if really faith has in God. So this got the mind thinking before she does or doesn’t do what she wants (l.45-46). And in “Farewell to Florida” the narrator says, “that the